The Cecil Whig., 1887-11-12

ntl nhlult. ftcl time, her ilEt culture,
her strength, her Laalr, her s,ul-all
We're c"nSecrated-nothlug was kept back
In lSGS Miss Wlharu went abroad. Dur
ing about two aud a-hait years of abseuce
she visited nearly every European coun-
try, the Holy Land, the pyramids, studied
a year at The College de France and the
Petit Sorbonne, attended the lectures of
such men as GulZOt, studied Ill Berlin
and Rome, .ld amid the multiplicity OF
OF the most eminent periodicals, t. evory
one of which, at one time or another.
she has been a valued Contributor. The
work she has personally accomplished
during the last 10 years is miraculous.
Sue has sometimes kept
TEN SECRETARIES At WORK.
Some years She has travelled 80 0Oo
speeches and articl-s tor the press. She
has visited every town III the United
States of 10000 population, and most OF
those with only !, 900, org AIMING branches
If the Nomau's Christian Temperance
UnIon For 10 years She delivered on an
avera. g "a spec ch IA day. Miss Willard,
in 1876 came out tor wuman'S ) ballot as
IL weapon OF home projection, and en-
dured much cpntradi ictIun for the sake OF
tuaU c..usu. 40 president OF the Woman 5
Christian Temperance Union of Illinois,
she led movement for woman right to
vote on the question of licensing the sa
loon under local option law. Nearly 2U0,-
900 names were secured in few weeks
for this purpose. Miss Wizards position
on this sbject is described in the follow
ing quotation from an article in the NOrH
1moricon Rtctoc, written by Judge Rob
women are not clamorous for their rights,
but anxious to discharge their duties.
Such women find their true voice in the
tender eloquence and deep religious ear
nestness of such advocates as Frances 4.
Willard, pleading for the ballot as d
means OF home protection. Miss
Willard was corresponding secre-
tary of the National w. c. T. [. from
Ito founding, in 1874, until her resigna-
5ion in ISIS In 1879 she was made presi-
lent of the society, a position which she
now holds. The other general officers are
Mrs. Callie B. Buell., corresponding sec
retaiy; Mrs. Mary a Woodbridge, re-
assistant recording secretary, and Miss
Esther Pugh, treasurer. This society is
the direct outgrowth of the woman'S $
temperance crusade in Ohio, begun in
Hillsboro, Dec. %, 1873, by Mrs. Eliza
irmble Thompson and her coadjutors
DIR. Dio Lewis, of Boston, had proposed
he plan in a lecture the evening before.
AS result of this rapidly increasing
movement the
LIQUOR TRAFFIC MAS DRIVEN OUT
of . % towns in % days. but it soon sprang
up a2air., ard the women determined on
organized and systematic EFFORT. For
Il is pun pose Il preliminary committee net
at til, (EauIarqua SunGay- school as
semhIy i'll the summer of 1874. Ms. Jun-
ME +. Willing VS. chairman, ard Mrs
Emily Huntington Miller secretary of
that com nittee. Mrs. Annie Witten-
myer y! Philadelphia, was the first
6 Il, ,,l,
ed in Cleveland, O., i'll Npvem Der, lSE4
This society is now regularly organized
i'll very state and territory of the [ lIted
States, and mum bers about 10000 local
auxilliaries with a follow ing of from
200 600 To 300, 600 women, whose badge
is the white ribbon, and whose motto ls
For God and Home and Native L,nd."
It's work is divided INTO 40 departments,
with a superlnteudeut-na state
aud lncaI-at the head OF each, and is
grouped under the head of preventive,
educational, evangelistic, social and legal
work, beside the department of organi-
zation. 1t is non sectional and non see
and south, for the purpose of training
the children, educating public sentiment,
reforming the drinking classes and out
having the liquor rrat file. 1t Is the largest
society ever founded and controlled ex-
clus!vely by women. The heaGqualter
are in Chicago. where the society has es-
Ia abli,hcd Womau's Ten perance Publi-
cation Association, which sent out III lSS1
over 30 600, 600 plges of temperance liter
ature, and publishes five periodicals., be
sides leaflets, books. etc. 1t has also a
lecture bureau, a National Temperance
Hospital, and is building a temper ance
temple for the accommodation OF its va
rious departments. The scientific tenn
perance educational laws, now operative
in twenty two states and territories, were
secured by the ". c. T. l. under the
leadership OF Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, of
Boston.
Ia 1883 Miss Willard founded the
WciId's Womem's Christian Temperance
Union on the same plan as that OF the
United States.
IT HAS ALREADY SPREAD
to the Sandwich Islands, Japan. India.
China, and largely through the efforts of
Ms. Mary Clement Leavitt, of Boston.
Mrs Margaret Bright Lncas, of Eu- land,
is president, Miss Willard, first vice-pres-
ident, and MRS Hannah White Smith, Of
Philadelphia, CORES spondIng secretary.
Great Britain and Canada are we'll or
ganizcd. In 1SS2 Miss Willard became a
member If the central commltte oi the
Natioral Prohibition party, and Is ntiu-
ential in It's cOunselS. She WAS for a
brirf period editor of the Chicago ErcH-
ina Post, and for three months assisted
in Mr. Muody's meeting III Boston. In
1SS3. in company with her private secre-
tary, Miss Anna A. Gordon, she visited
every state aud territory of the nited
States to orgau'Ze and strengthen tie
women 5 temperance work She is super
ntcrdtnt of the departures of work 1ur
the promotion Of social puity, co 'Peral-